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Tribuna's report, datelined Buenos Aires, said that Dr. Ronald Richter, the former Austrian scientist, was arrested after technical experts of the Argentine army had discovered that Richter "was not sufficiently advanced as a physicist" to achieve the atomic release Perón had claimed. Three experts informed Perón that Richter, in their opinion, was nothing more than a "colossal bluff...
...Russians still had one major gap in their knowledge: they did not know how to make plutonium. That gap, the committee suggested, was filled by Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian-born British physicist who quietly took his wife and three children on a trip to Finland last fall, then vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Pontecorvo was an expert on nuclear reactors, the devices which are needed to make plutonium...
France's Madame EUGENIE COTTON, 69, Communist fellow traveler, physicist, president of the Communist-sponsored Women's International Democratic Federation, delegate at Red peace rallies in New York and Europe...
...electrical charges and pushed to enormous velocity by cyclotrons or other "particle accelerators." So Richter may have gotten his "high temperatures" and "thermonuclear reactions" merely by the old trick of accelerating charged particles. Just after Perón's first announcement, Richter hinted that an article by British Physicist Sir John Cockcroft told what line he was following. Cockcroft described how, in 1932, he shot protons against a lithium target and turned the lithium into helium plus energy...
...using an Argentine material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week seemed to be that Physicist Richter may well have gotten promising results on a tiny laboratory scale and jumped to the false conclusion that the Cockcroft process, or something like it, could be scaled up to full production size. But the atomic scientists, a cautious clan, were still reserving final judgment. "The proof," said Dr. James...